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* Nuclear weapon: a means of bringing about ultimate peace—the cherished peace of silence that total annihilation thankfully brings. |
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**[[Derek Abbott]] in ''Wickedictionary'', p. 106, CreateSpace (2011), ISBN 9781463668266. |
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* When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you've had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. |
* When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you've had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. |
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** [[Robert Oppenheimer|J. Robert Oppenheimer]], testifying in his defense in his 1954 security hearings (page 81 of the official transcript) |
** [[Robert Oppenheimer|J. Robert Oppenheimer]], testifying in his defense in his 1954 security hearings (page 81 of the official transcript) |
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Nuclear weapons are explosive devices that derive their destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.
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- When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you've had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, testifying in his defense in his 1954 security hearings (page 81 of the official transcript)
- Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
- Albert Einstein, "Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946)
- They asked me what I thought of the atomic bomb. I said I had not been able to take any interest in it.
- The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in Wrath.
- Winston Churchill, on hearing about the Trinity test, as recollected in Harvey H. Bundy, "Remembered Words," The Atlantic (March 1957).
- Any military commander who is honest with himself, or with those he's speaking to, will admit that he has made mistakes in the application of military power. He's killed people unnecessarily — his own troops or other troops — through mistakes, through errors of judgment. A hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands, maybe even a hundred thousand. But ... he hasn't destroyed nations. And the conventional wisdom is don't make the same mistake twice, learn from your mistakes. And we all do. Maybe we make the same mistake three times, but hopefully not four or five. But there will be no learning period with nuclear weapons. You make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
- Robert McNamara, in The Fog of War
- Nuclear weapon: an agency reserved for use by the most civilized nations for the settlement of disputes that might become troublesome if left unadjusted. Unfortunately, too many formerly uncivilized nations are becoming civilized.
- Leonard Rossiter in the Devil's Bedside Book[specific citation needed]
